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Hurt Locker, The
89
Goodbye Solo
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87
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86
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84
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83
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83
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83
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82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
82
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82
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82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
81
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81
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80
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80
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79
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78
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77
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77
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75
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74
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74
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74
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74
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70
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70
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69
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65
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64
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63
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62
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61
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59
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58
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57
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56
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56
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55
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54
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54
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54
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52
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50
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48
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45
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42
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42
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40
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40
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38
Gigantic
36
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35
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28
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28
Surveillance
22
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18
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16
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xx
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I Capture the Castle
Samuel Goldwyn Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for brief nudity
Starring
Romola Garai,
Rose Byrne,
Henry Thomas,
Marc Blucas,
Bill Nighy,
Tara Fitzgerald,
Sinéad Cusack,
and
Henry Cavill
A classic English story told in a fresh, vivacious style by the teenage heroine of the piece. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Heidi Thomas
Dodie Smith (novel)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Tim Fywell
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 23, 2003
Video: December 23, 2003
Theatrical: July 11, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
113 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
90
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Funny, sad, moving and, above all, astute, making I Capture the Castle a fabulous film. Even the cars are tasty.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
It's a rich, emotional story, a wonderfully appealing film made with humor and intelligence, but there is also something almost magical about how it takes the stuff of innumerable previous films -- love, romance and adolescent coming of age -- and turns them into something that feels one of a kind.

88
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Screwball farce, romance, domestic tragicomedy and literary frolic rolled into one.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
We like these people, which is important, and we are amused by them, which is helpful, but most of all we envy them, because they negotiate their romantic perplexities with such dash and style.

80
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The psychological darkness that underpins this film doesn't seem inappropriate to its wit and charm, but rather amplifies it, makes it more real.

80
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Wise and moving.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Smith's story is a charmer: touching, funny, romantic, perceptive, absorbing and full of color and character. And the movie, which has been respectfully and affectionately handled by people who obviously love their source, captures most of those qualities.

75
Premiere
Peter Debruge
What isn't fair is the film's R rating, which makes this charming coming-of-age tale virtually inaccessible to the audience sure to cherish it most.

75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
If there's true magic to be found in the proceedings, it's in Garai's dexterous performance.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
A delightful coming-of-age movie that teeters on contrivance but never topples.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
It's surprising no filmmaker has adapted Dodie Smith's novel before now, and pleasing that Mr. Fywell and company have done such a responsible job with it. It's one of the season's most captivating surprises.

70
Variety
Andy Klein
Fywell has transformed this autobiographical novel into a perceptive, wholly engaging drama, infusing the proceedings with a light tone that almost qualifies the film as a comedy, yet never loses sight of the unpredictability of human emotions.

70
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The evident affection that the filmmakers bear toward Smith's novel, and toward the odd, spirited people who inhabit it, gives the film a modest, hardworking appeal.

70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
May not be a very grand picture, but it's a gently satisfying one. And if it brings Smith's book just a few hundred more readers, it's admirably done its job.

67
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Falling in love with the wrong person makes for a far more toothsome melodrama, a fact this small, satisfying picture rightly recognizes.

67
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
There's something refreshingly and truly girlish about the picture's musings and epiphanies that makes its R rating baffling.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Sadly too often (and I'm unsure whether this is the result of voices that echo when bounced off stone walls or because the acting is all over the place), the characters create the impression that English is their second language.

63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A Jane Austen-like tale of sense and sensibility, with some of the wit, but, alas, none of the linguistic legerdemain.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Smith's beautifully observed story of two young women learning how cruel and calculating the world -- and they -- can be is beautifully realized, and Garai stands out among a fine ensemble cast.

60
Film Threat
Rich Cline
Nighy is superb as usual in a much meatier role than even he usually gets. And Byrne makes her character far more three-dimensional than the shallow creature she could have been.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The boys and girls are so busy acting out their romantic fantasies or soulfully pining over impossible loves that, however photogenic they may be, they never seem to actually live their lives.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Smith's book is a charmer, but the keys to this ''Castle'' have been misplaced.

50
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Sweet and sleepy, I Capture the Castle might feel most comfortable in a Sunday-afternoon slot on the BBC.

50
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Makes its biggest misstep in failing to persuade the viewer the five family members are charming eccentrics rather than irritating weirdos.

50
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
The film is weighted down by a dour sensibility at odds with the book's insouciant charm.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Ray Conlogue
It is, alas, très twee. A muchness of silliness. Beautifully filmed silliness, and fetchingly acted tweeness. But give me Cruella de Vil any time.

50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
An overloaded script by Heidi Thomas... defeats a fine cast

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Could have been a sensation if a director with a smidgen of moviemaking instinct had taken the helm.

20
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Garai's flowery, overwritten narration proves irritating in the movie's first half, then unfortunately sets the tone for a fatal second-half descent into soap operatics, dippy dialogue, and airless melodrama.


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